Impact of integration of multislice computed tomography imaging into three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping on clinical outcomes, safety, and efficacy using radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1215-1223

  Martinek, Martin ^a   Nesser, Hans Joachim ^a   Aichinger, Josef ^a   Boehm, Gernot ^a   Purerfellner, Helmut ^a  

^a Academic Teaching Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Carto merge; Mapping; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SAFETY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34848839833     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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